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Friday, April 10, 2015

We have been studying form and order again in Level 3! This time, we worked with one of my favorite jazz pieces called "Potato Chips" by Slim Galliard. I used a sequence I learned from Marcie Kumor at an institute day several years ago with the students to create our motions to go with the form of the song. Students had to remember what music went with what stick patterns. Students also had to improvise a section of the music by using the names of different kinds of chips (i.e. crunchy cheesy, cool ranch, sour cream and onion, etc.). You can hear several of the students (and sometimes me) speaking the different chip names during the videos. You'll also see some stick tricks which were tricky but super fun to learn!